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ISBN 10: 0061374598 ISBN 13: 9780061374593

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

Riassunto

Updated to include newly released letters written between 1976 and 1985, a thirtieth anniversary edition shares the New Yorker writer's and classic author's thoughts about such topics as the uncertainty of the future, his marriage, and his relationships with such colleagues as James Thurber, Groucho Marx, and John Updike. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

E. B. White, the author of such beloved classics as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan, was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine, then in its infancy. He died on October 1, 1985, and was survived by his son and three grandchildren.

Mr. White's essays have appeared in Harper's magazine, and some of his other books are: One Man's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner, Letters of E. B. White, Essays of E. B. White, and Poems and Sketches of E. B. White. He won countless awards, including the 1971 National Medal for Literature and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, which commended him for making a "substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."

During his lifetime, many young readers asked Mr. White if his stories were true. In a letter written to be sent to his fans, he answered, "No, they are imaginary tales . . . But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination."

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Letters of E. B. White touches on a wide variety of subjects, including the New Yorker editor who became the author's wife; their dachshund, Fred, with his "look of fake respectability"; and White's contemporaries, from Harold Ross and James Thurber to Groucho Marx and John Updike and, later, Senator Edmund S. Muskie and Garrison Keillor. Updated with newly released letters from 1976 to 1985, additional photographs, and a new foreword by John Updike, this unparalleled collection of letters from one of America's favorite essayists, poets, and storytellers now spans nearly a century, from 1908 to 1985.

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• Editore: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061374598
• ISBN 13: 9780061374593
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 713
• Redattore: Guth Dorothy Lobrano